Agenda Items: 1Q Financial Report; use of HOT for billboard; 2023 Racial Profiling Report; Executive Session: Halff & Asso. Litigation

REMEMBER: This Friday, 16 February 2024, 5 p.m. is the deadline for filing your application to run for one of three (3) City Council seats in the 04 May 2024 City Municipal Election. "The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill

Summary: The next step in rezoning the Willow Park Church of Christ will be a P&Z Meeting, Tuesday, 20 February, 2024, and then a Council Meeting, Tuesday, 27 February, 2024. The City will be considering and taking action on a new rezoning request for the Church, from Residential Zone to Planned Development Zone.

Public Notices: Public Hearing for Haney Development rezoning and SUP for Roller Skating Rink; Public Hearing for WP Church of Christ rezoning; Legal Notice for NBT Financial Bank opening; Legal Notice for First Bank Texas mobile branch.

Summary: "In October 2023, the North Texas ozone alerts hit the highest number in a decade." The beginning of February 2024, the EPA set tougher national soot standards; Fort Worth's Tarrant County made the list of "10 Texas counties had particulate matter levels that would exceed the new standard."

Summary: Wilks Development recently sold its remaining 44 acres of residential property to Clarity Homes, who now plans to build 80 homes in the second phase of The Reserves at Trinity; development will begin in early fall. Lot sizes will vary, and prices will range from the upper $400,000 range to the $600,000.

Summary: "Experts say the retail real estate market is breaking occupancy records in the Dallas and Fort Worth area." "Retail markets are posting balances of supply and demand that outpace every other major commercial real estate category."

Summary: The City of Willow Park finally had a conversation with the residential neighbors of the Willow Park Church of Christ; Citizen were concerned about the Willow Park Church of Christ rezoning from residential to commercial; the City is proposing to use a Planned Development Zone to address most of the Citizens' concerns.

Newsletter from Roger Williams, the US House Rep. for Texas District 25, which includes Willow Park.

• Current: No final event but AT&T Stadium will still accommodate nine matches, including a semifinal — the most games of any host city. • Summary: Start planning now to be gone or to take advantage of the largest sporting event ever -- less than fifty (50) miles from Willow Park. “In just three and a half years, Fort Worth will welcome millions of soccer fans for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the largest sporting event in the world.

Summary: During last month's storm, Gov. Abbott bragged the ERCOT power grid performed flawlessly. However, a less political reality proved a bit less enthusiastic. Weather conditions were not as bad for as long as forecast. And ERCOT twice asked customers to conserve energy or else.

Reminders for February 2024: Emergency Warning System test first Wednesday (07 February 2024); register for emergency alert notifications via email, text and app; current road construction; Willow Park water bill senior discount; city meetings; city events; current elections for Willow Park Citizens

A compendium of Willow Park Civics weekly news summaries, emailed to WPC Blog subscribers. The week in a glance; the year in a list. "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."

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